Week 8 Update

Week 8 was all about what happens after people start clicking. Kyle’s lesson shifted the focus from “Can I get traffic with $1/day ads?” to “Can I turn that attention into actual conversations, referrals, and (eventually) commissions?”

I leaned harder into conversational ads, shifted more traffic to my own website instead of sending everything straight to Wealthy Affiliate, and watched the numbers move in some interesting ways. I didn’t hit any new paid upgrades this week, but I did prove that the engine is working – and I even discovered a surprise referral from a Medium article I wrote back in July.

1. What Changed When I Sent Traffic to My Website First

In earlier weeks, most of my ads pointed straight at my Wealthy Affiliate affiliate link. This week I started sending a lot more of that traffic to From0to100K.com instead, and the Site Kit numbers reacted quickly.

• 892 visitors in the last 28 days, with a steep spike starting around November 9.
• The majority of that traffic is now landing on content pages instead of just my WA link.
• My new post, “Affiliate Marketing Trends 2026: New Rules & Red Flags” , is currently the top performing article by pageviews.

The tradeoff: while my website visits climbed, my direct WA clicks dropped. That tells me two things:

1. The ads are doing their job – people are curious enough to land on my site.
2. My on-site conversion path to Wealthy Affiliate needs tightening so more of those visitors actually click through to the platform.

I’m not discouraged by that dip. It just means the funnel has shifted. Instead of Facebook → WA, I’m now running more of a Facebook → 0to100K → WA model, which should be more sustainable long term.

2. Week 8 Bootcamp Tasks – What I Actually Did

Task 1: Analyze Current Referral Activity

I pulled up my Wealthy Affiliate stats for November 9–17 and recorded:

• Total clicks: 5,037
• New starter referrals: 1
• Upgrades / revenue: $0 this week (no new premiums yet)

The fun twist? That new starter wasn’t from a recent ad – it came from a Medium article I wrote back in July: “You Say You Want Change… But Do You Really?” That’s a good reminder that content can keep silently working in the background while I’m obsessing over fresh ads.

Task 2: Study Best-Performing Posts

Looking across my ads and posts, a couple of patterns stood out:

• Niche-specific angles (like my “Mechanics” or “Farming” themed content) consistently spark curiosity and clicks.
• Conversational copy that feels like a real person talking – not a brand shouting – still wins.
• My text-only post (more on that below) drew the best engagement relative to cost, especially once the WA community piled in with comments and reactions.

In short, people respond when they feel like they’re joining a conversation, not reading an ad.

Task 3: Create a Conversational-Style Post

Following Kyle’s advice, I created a simple text-only post on my Facebook Page:

• No external links in the post itself.
• Open-ended, honest question style.
• Boosted in the $1–$3/day range to a broad business/entrepreneurship audience.

The funny part? I completely forgot to run that text post through Image Studio like the lesson suggested. Even so, it outperformed a lot of my prettier image ads in terms of pure engagement.

I’ll embed that post here so you can see the exact conversation:

Task 4: Engage Actively in the Comments

This week I treated the comments section as part of the ad – not an afterthought.

• Replied to every comment within about 24 hours.
• Kept the tone friendly and conversational (no copy-paste templates).
• Where it made sense, I invited people to check out Wealthy Affiliate and mentioned that it’s free to start.
• Started tracking who seemed curious vs. who just reacted and moved on.
• Added my own “pinned” helpful comment under the post with a more direct recommendation.

This is the part that actually turns engagement into potential earnings, and it’s also the easiest part to skip when life gets busy. I still need to treat this like a daily non-negotiable, not just “something I do when I remember.”

Task 5: Recreate Conversational Posts as Image Ads

I didn’t convert that exact text post into an image ad (my miss), but I did spend a lot of time in Image Studio turning other concepts into visuals – some on my personal profile, some on the From0to100K page. These followed Kyle’s suggestions:

• Using visual backgrounds that match the mood of the message.
• Adding the WA logo and my own branding into corners.
• Testing warm colors for engagement and greens/blues for optimism and calm.
• Boosting new creatives at $1–$5/day and watching which ones earned the cheapest landing page views.

Task 6: Track Conversions & Engagement

After 3–5 days of data, here’s what I saw across my main “website visitors” ads:

• 50,000+ total views and over 31,000 viewers across the campaigns.
• 779 link clicks and 447 landing page views.
• Average cost per landing page view around $0.06.
• Audience skewed slightly female (about 56% women, 44% men), strongest in the 45–64 age range.
• Geographically, a mix of Brazil, Belize, Canada, UK, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, US, and South Africa.

At this stage I haven’t had to aggressively “turn off” any ads for being total flops – most are at least earning inexpensive traffic. The bigger work is making sure that traffic lands on content that naturally moves people toward WA.

No new commissions from this batch yet, so there’s nothing to reinvest. For now, I’m treating the ad spend as tuition for building a repeatable system.

Task 7: Share Progress (This Post)

This Week 8 update is part one. I’ll also write a separate Wealthy Affiliate blog post that focuses specifically on the conversational ad results, Image Studio screenshots, and a breakdown of the engagement stats from the text post vs. image ads.

I’ll link that WA update back here once it’s live and add it under the Bootcamp class for others following the same path.

3. Image Studio Continues to Be the Secret Weapon

I said it in Week 7 and I’m doubling down in Week 8: Image Studio is ridiculously good for affiliate marketers who don’t want to fight with Photoshop or Canva for hours.

I’ve been using it to:

• Turn plain-text post ideas into scroll-stopping images in a few prompts.
• Keep my 0 to 100K branding consistent without needing a graphic design degree.
• Quickly rebuild older concepts that performed well, but with fresher visuals.

Why I’m Leaning So Hard on Image Studio

• It keeps my creative pipeline moving even on busy weeks.
• I can match WA’s brand look and my 0to100K colors within a couple of tweaks.
• It’s built into the same platform where I track referrals and training – no extra logins.

If you’re already inside WA and haven’t played with Image Studio yet, Week 8 is a good time to start rebuilding your best-performing posts as fresh visuals.

4. A Quick Black Friday Sneak Peek (Setting Up Week 9)

Week 9 in the Bootcamp dives into Leveraging Success Stories & Building Black Friday Ads, and I’m already laying the groundwork.

Wealthy Affiliate’s Black Friday promotion is one of the biggest opportunities of the year to:

• Help people lock in premium training at a deep discount.
• Earn higher commissions on annual plans.
• Justify a short-term bump in ad spend because the math finally tilts heavily in your favor.

5. Bonus: Testing the Framework on a Client Site (FlyFishCR)

Because I can’t help myself, I also ran a couple of test ads for a client site, FlyFishCR.com, using the same general approach:

• Strong, story-driven images showcasing Costa Rica fly fishing.
• Simple, curiosity-based copy that leads people to the site rather than a hard sell.
• Website visitor objective with a modest daily budget.

Those ads actually performed better than some of my own Wealthy Affiliate creatives in terms of landing page views and cost. That’s a reassuring sign: this isn’t just a “make money” niche thing – the framework works beautifully in a completely different niche too.

6. What I’m Taking Into Week 9

• Keep running conversational-style posts and treat comments like part of the funnel, not an afterthought.
• Improve on-site CTAs so more of my website visitors become WA clicks instead of stopping at the article.
• Turn that successful text-only post into multiple image variations and A/B test them properly.
• Build out dedicated Black Friday creatives and landing page tweaks, ready to plug into the Week 9 strategy.

The big theme this week: the system is working, but the handoff from “curious visitor” to “new WA member” still needs more refinement. That’s exactly what I’ll be tuning as we head into the Black Friday stretch.